AfterImage is a simple, elegant method to catalog your graphic images, scanned slides, negatives and prints into a one-stop reference file. You will need FileMaker Pro 3.0 or higher fully installed on your system, running OS 8.0 or higher. To use the Auto-import feature, AppleScript and its libraries must be enabled. It is highly recommended that you use a G3-based Mac, although this has been successfully tested on as old of a Mac as a Duo 2300c (PPC 603 chip).
Full documentation is under development.
When AI is first opened, the startup screen is presented. AI is designed to permit the viewing and warehousing of graphic images. Selecting the About button will display the version number of AI. Selecting the Start button will take the user to the principal Editor layout.
Here, AI permits the user to view existing records (a record will hold one image) or add new records. If the user has just started with AI, there are no records to view. To Add records to AI, the user must have scanned images prepared for importing into AI. These images may be gifs, tiffs, or jpegs.
Ideally, the user will collect their images into a folder on their desktop.
To import single images, begin by creating a new record with the New Record button. Next, select the Raw Import button. A dialog box on the screen will ask you to locate the image to be imported. Find and select the image. It should appear in the image window on the right side of the screen. Enter in reference information for the image: image reference (name), date (image was taken or acquired, image file name (file name of raw image which was imported), Image caption, and so-forth.
Repeat this process of creating a new record and importing raw images as needed for individual imports.
The Back and Next buttons in the menu bar display previous and next records, in the current sort order.
The Slideshow button will present a full-screen slide presentation of each image in the current viewed set, running in 15 second intervals.
The Journal button permits more extensive notes for a given image. (Editor button returns user to the Editor, Find button permits a find by text string in the journal).
Arranger with Pix displays all found files as a list. Within this window, the user can assign which images will be printed (on or off), and the "order" of an image collection (assign higher or lower numbers to affect the sort order, then select the sort button to conduct the sort. Record number, reference data and image reference are all displayed, along with the caption. Use of the find button here is restricted to finding only files which are tagged to "print" (view). The find command will ignore and not display files in which print is set to off.
If you are using a non-G3 mac, you may find using the Arranger faster if images are not displayed, so select the "assign w/o slides" or "Arranger No Pix" buttons.
The Auto Import button is the true power behind AI. This permits the automated importation of large collections of images at one time. Selecting the Auto Import button displays a series of dialog boxes. Pay close attention to the instructions on the screen, and this should perform just fine. We recommend that batch imports be scaled up slowly. We have successfully done many hundreds of images at one time, and there is no reason (beyond hard drive space) why thousands cannot be done, but be careful. Your Mac may need to be configured optimally for this kind of operation. Contact us.
REMEMBER: the demo will only permit the importation of up to 100 records total. Contact us for additional help if you encounter problems. Prior to contacting us: write down a complete description of the problem, including the Mac in use, amount of RAM, hard drive, System version, error code numbers (if any) and other information you feel may be of use to us. If you do not have a current copy of the extension XTND installed on your mac, open our System Stuff folder and move the contents in the Extensions folder of your System folder, restart your Mac, and try again.
To Quit from AfterImage, select the Quit button in the Editor layout.
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Recommended RAM: 32 Mb minimum, with FileMaker allocated to at least 16 Mb.
Recommended Hard drive free space: 2.5 times the size of your graphics collection (total Mb of graphics files to catalog)
Please report any bugs or problems to us. Please backup your data every day.
Version history:
V 1.0.3 released 4/3/99. Quit button included for standalone version.
V 1.0.2 released 4/1/99. AI tech support information updated in the About menu. Concurrent release of the standalone Mac product.
V 1.0.1 released 3/23/99. AI now opens properly to Startup screen, permitting the viewing of the About screen from every available layout. User demo status has been updated. Added find-all command. Improved menu choices in Journal. Improved About... button performance. Added easter egg button for viewing the startup screen.
V 1.0 released 3/20/99. AI was released as a FileMaker™ database for the importation of scanned images and artwork.
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